you can’t see in Renoise whether a track is on or off and it’s nearly impossible to remember what is on or off when using 10+ tracks.
IOW, you’re asking for something which, with a bit of careful planning can be achieved today, but the problem is that the edits you make are largely buried deep down in automation lanes.
This is interesting, because it’s turning more into a problem of representation then.
I mean, if you tweak a parameter using the right mouse button it will be recorded. And if you had set up a mixer with gainers, they too would get recorded.
It sort of brings my thoughts back to the “advanced automation” topic, but with an additional dimension to it:
that you could start a recording session with a blank slate (no automation lanes visible), and then have them added as you tweak parameters.
I would probably want the automation editor to have presets then (which parameters to show), to switch between various “workflows” (e.g. a mixer view, or some specific set of parameters).